Web Caching in Mobile Environments

During the past years, a number of efforts have been made to consolidate the WWW with wireless network (w4). To realize this vision is developed the wireless communication infrastructure but a mobile terminal may still have difficulty to connect to a wired network or Internet due to limited wireless bandwidth and accessibility. Thus, researchers are exploring an alternative technology called mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) for its low cost and easy deployment. In this paper we present an ongoing work in developing a replacement strategy for mobile Web caching in which the eviction of a document is based on three criteria are: the references and the cost of retrieve the document from remote node and the size of the document. Considering that, the document to be evicted is that less referenced during the caching time, and with high retrieving cost.